Andréas Litsegård
About Andréas Litsegård
I achieved a Master's degree in International Relations in 2004 and a PhD in Peace and Development Research in 2013, both at the School of Global Studies (SGS), University of Gothenburg (GU). My PhD-thesis was about civil society regionalization in Southern Africa. At the moment I am a senior lecturer at SGS, from 2014, and also a senior research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn), University of Pretoria. My ambition is to combine research and teaching, with as small climate footprint as possible. I am deeply involved in climate transition issues at GU as the environmental coordinator at the department with responsibility for coordinating our sustainability work, for example development and implementation of a travel policy, and member of the environmental council at the Faculty of Social Science. I am also part of the new working group for social sustainability at GU, with the task of supporting the practical work with social sustainability, for example solidarity fridge, urban gardening, fair trade university and integration of immigrants in the operation of the university.
Areas of interest My research interests concern regionalism, governance, civil society, democracy, development co-operation, climate transition and migration; and how these research areas interact. I have done a number of field studies in Southern and East Africa since 2003, which is my main geographical focus area. I am also interested in pedagogical issues within higher education, particularly academic writing and peer review in learning processes.
Current research Currently, I am engaged in research about climate-related migration with a focus on governance in Ethiopia, within the six year research program 'A New Interdisciplinary Framework for Studying the Relation between Climate Change and Migration', running 2022-2028. The program is a joint collaboration between SGS and the Departmen of Earth Science at the University of Gotneburg, involving researchers from Norway, Ethiopia, Nepal and Peru. The program aims to establish a bold interdisciplinary research environment comprising the natural and social sciences to examine how climate change affects migration processes in three of the world’s most populated mountain areas, i.e. the Nepalese Himalayas; the Peruvian Andes; and the Ethiopian highlands. The program also strives to have an impact on policy making related to climate-related migration. Besides these projects I do pedagocial research on how to integrate academic writing and peer review in higher education, together with colleageues, based on our own experiences of having taught international relations.
Teaching and tutoring I foremost teach within International Relations and lead and lecture on bachelor courses. For ten years I have been working with the course Introduction to international Relations (IR1111). In 2017 this generated the Social Science Faculty Pedagogical Price at the University of Gothenburg, together with colleagues, for having integrated academic writing in education about international relations with peer review elements, based on a student-centred learning perspective. Also, I teach within Human Ecology on an advanced level; the Bachelor Program in Global Studies; and at the unit for Pedagogical Development and Interactive Learning at GU; as well as supervise bachelor, master and doctoral students with their theses. In total, I have about 5100 hours of teaching experience and have supervised about 40 Bachelor- and Master theses. 2017-2018 and 2020 I was the Subject Coordinator for International Relations where I pushed for pedagogical development of the IR-courses and the creation of a Bachelor Program in IR. I was also a member of the Pedagogical Task Force at SGS, organising pedagogical seminars, 2020-2022.
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Teaching International Relations through Academic
Writing
Elizabeth Olsson, Andréas Litsegård
School of Blogal Studies - 2022 -
Teaching Academic Literacies in international relations: towards a pedagogy of
practice
Elizabeth Olsson, Linnea Gelot, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Andréas Litsegård
Teaching in Higher Education - 2021 -
From Principle to Practice: How a Team of Lecturers Used Academic Literacies to Teach International
Relations
Elizabeth Olsson, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Andréas Litsegård
European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) - 2021 -
Teaching IR Through Writing: A Comprehensive Approach to the Continuous Development of Writing Instruction in an Introductory International Relations
Course
Elizabeth Olsson, Linnéa Gelot, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Andréas Litsegård
The European Consortium For Political Research (ECPR), General Conference 2020 - 2020 -
The role of civil society in regional integration in Southern Africa: patterns of inclusion and
exclusion
Andréas Litsegård
Building Regionalism From Below: The Role of Parliaments and Civil Society in regional Integration in Africa, edited by Korwa G. Adar, Giovanni Finizio and Angela Meyer - 2018 -
Interregionalism across the Atlantic
Space
Andréas Litsegård, Frank Mattheis
2018 -
Civil society participation in regional social policy: The case of HIV/AIDS in the Southern African Development Community
(SADC)
Andreas Godsäter, Fredrik Söderbaum
Global Social Policy - 2017 -
Revisiting drivers for Environmental Migration in
Africa
Gunilla Almered Olsson, Shivcharn Dhillion, Kenneth Hermele, Stefan Permanto, Andreas Godsäter
Deveopment Research Conference 2016. August 22-24, Stockholm University - 2016 -
Civil Society Regionalization in Southern Africa: The Cases of Trade and
HIV/AIDS
Andreas Godsäter
2016 -
Civil Society and Regional Governance: Knowledge Production and Issue-Framing Around
SADC
Andreas Godsäter
Journal of Civil Society - 2015 -
Regionalization "From Below" in Southern Africa: The Role of Civil Society in Regional Trade and HIV/AIDS Policy
Making
Andreas Godsäter
Civil Society and World Regions - How Citizens Are Reshaping Regional Governance in Times of Crisis, edited by Lorenzo Fioramonti - 2014 -
Civil Society and Regional Trade Integration in Southern
Africa
Andreas Godsäter
Mapping Agency: Comparing Regionalisms in Africa. Ulrike Lorenz and Martin Rempe (Eds.) - 2013 -
Southern African Development Community
(SADC)
Andreas Godsäter
The Democratization of International Institutions - First International Democracy Report, edited by Lucio Levi, Giovanni Finizio and Nicola Vallinoto - 2013 -
Civil Society Regionalization in Southern Africa - The Cases of Trade and
HIV/AIDS
Andreas Godsäter
2013 -
Regional Environmental Governance in the Lake Victoria Region: The Role of Civil
Society
Andreas Godsäter
African Studies - 2013 -
Civil Society in Regional Governance in Eastern and Southern
Africa
Fredrik Söderbaum, Andreas Godsäter
Civil Society and International Governance. The role of non-state actors in global and regional regulatory frameworks, edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello, Julie Gilson and Debora Spini - 2011 -
‘Civil Society in Regional Governance in Eastern and Southern
Africa’
Andreas Godsäter, Fredrik Söderbaum
, David Armstrong, Valeria Bello, Julie Gilson and Debora Spini (eds.) Civil Society and International Governance. The role of non-state actors in global and regional regulatory frameworks - 2010 -
The Role of Civil Society in Regional Governance: The Case of Eastern and Southern
Africa
Andreas Godsäter, Fredrik Söderbaum
3rd GARNET Annual Conference on Mapping Integration and Regionalism in a Global World: The EU and Regional Governance outside the EU in Bordeaux, France, 17-20 September - 2008